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104 S.W.2d 4

Wintermann v. McDonald

Texas Supreme Court

Decided April 14, 1937

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1937-04-14

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Decided 1937-04-14

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Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Commissioners Court of Titus County v. Agan (1997), Morriss v. First Nat. Bank of Mission (1952)

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SHARP, Justice.

¶1The following language was used in the original opinion in this case: “That both surveyed and unsurveyed school lands situated within five miles of a producing oil or gas well are not subject to sale, but are subject to lease only.”

¶2In order that there may be no confusion in applying the rule announced in the opinion, we here state that part of section 5 of H. B. No. 358 (Acts 1931, c. 271 [Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 5421c, § 5]) is not involved in this case. That part reads: “Any headright survey, homestead donation, pre-emption survey, scrip survey or other survey heretofore awarded or sold, which survey has been held and claimed in good faith by any party for a period of ten years prior to the date of application for patent and which surveys cannot be patented under existing laws, may be patented on payment of One Dollar ($1.00) an acre to the Land Commissioner.”

¶3Therefore, it is not necessary to hold that land described in that part of said section cannot be acquired by purchase if it is situated within five miles of a producing oil or gas well. That question is not before us, and we express no opinion thereon.

¶4With these statements, the motion for rehearing is overruled.

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